Hilal Isler is a writer whose recent work has appeared in the Paris Review, Literary Hub, Catapult, and The Rumpus. She holds a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania and is a 2019 Roxane Gay Fellow with the Jack Jones Literary Arts Association.&nbsp;

Hilal Isler

Naguib Mahfouz, Storyteller

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

Hilal Isler is a writer whose recent work has appeared in the Paris Review, Literary Hub, Catapult, and The Rumpus. She holds a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania and is a 2019 Roxane Gay Fellow with the Jack Jones Literary Arts Association.&nbsp;